“Every one of us have a role to play” or “Every one of us has a role to play”? “A bunch of students were waiting outside” or “a bunch of students was waiting outside”? “It is I who am here” or “It is ...
Mayor Carlson, along with his deputies, plan to visit the memorial. Mayor Carlson, along with his deputies, plans to visit the memorial. Which is right? Plan or plans? And, more important, why is this ...
The verb in a sentence is the word that shows action or being. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that's doing the action, or being something. Hello. I'm Mrs Shaukat and we're going to ...
If you are in Bucharest and impatiently waiting for, say, your children to head off to school in the morning, you might hear yourself saying something like, “Haideţi caţi întârziat, ce mai!” Or: ...
It isn’t easy to admit being wrong in front of thousands of readers, but Ben Yagoda took it on the chin It isn’t easy to admit being wrong in front of thousands of readers, but Ben Yagoda took it on ...
Podcasts, interviews, news channels and movies help you hear natural grammar usage. Listening improves your instinct for what ...
Please, please, The Maui News, rehire copy editors; children may be reading. Twice in a span of four days, this paper printed god-awful headlines, so bad they caused great pain to my sensibility. The ...